Don't most web servers send compressed data anyway?

You'd think so, but even our own Perl Monks doesn't gzip its responses:

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?

GET /index.pl? HTTP/1.1
Host: www.perlmonks.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.8.1.
+4) Gecko/20070529 SUSE/2.0.0.4-6.1 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.7,es;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: userpass=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:02:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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In reply to Re^2: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by clinton
in thread TinyMCE Perl Compressor by clinton

Title:
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